Josh Mailman

Josh Mailman, "President, Sirius Business Corporation. Mr. Mailman has helped start several grantmaking foundations and philanthropic business initiatives since the early 1980s, including the Threshold Foundation and the Social Venture Network, which brings together private investors, company founders and social entrepreneurs with a shared commitment to create a more just and sustainable society through business. He co-founded Business for Social Responsibility in 1992, now one of the largest national organizations focused on promoting business and social responsibility simultaneously. Mr. Mailman is a trustee of the Sigrid Rausing Trust, an advisor to the Rudolf Steiner Foundation, and a board member of the Mailman Foundation. In addition to the Fund, Mr. Mailman serves on the boards of Human Rights Watch, Witness, Sierra Madre Alliance, Blacksmith Institute, Afropop Worldwide, and the Environmental Defenders Law Center." 

"Joshua Mailman is the founder of four organizations that have brought together some of the world’s most socially innovative companies: Social Venture Network, Business for Social Responsibility, Social Venture Network/Europe, and Serious Change Fund LLC. He is a Trustee of the Sigrid Rausing Trust, U.K., and the Mailman Foundation; an advisor to RSF Social Finance; and an advisory board member of One World Projects and the Healing Forest Conservancy.  He is also a Board member of Human Rights Watch, the Fund for Global Human Rights, the Sierra Madre Alliance, Afropop World-Wide, the Blacksmith Institute, and International Funders of Indigenous Peoples." 


 * Director, Witness
 * Advisory Board, TransFair USA
 * Advisory Board, CorpWatch
 * Jury Member, Right Livelihood Award
 * Advisory Board for the Reebok Human Rights Award